The afterimage reader / edited by Mark Webber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Webber, Mark, 1970- editor.

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afterimage (London, England).

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--In motion pictures.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

349 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : The Visible Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The independent British film journal Afterimage published thirteen issues between 1970 and 1987. International in scope, it surveyed the many forms of radical cinema during an extraordinary period of film history. Having emerged in the wake of post-1968 cultural and political change, Afterimage charted contemporary developments with special issues on themes such as the avant-garde, Latin American cinema and visionary animation, and also looked back at early film pioneers. It published many of the leading critics of the period and vitally provided a forum for filmmakers' writings and manifestos. This indispensable collection includes texts by scholars Noël Burch, Roger Cardinal, B. Ruby Rich and Peter Wollen, filmmakers Jean Epstein, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman and Jan Švankmajer, plus extended interviews with Hollis Frampton and Raúl Ruiz, and more."--Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Simon Field

Looking back at Afterimage ; Acknowledgments ; Notes to the reader / Mark Webber

Nowsreel (on the newsreel movement) / Simon Hartog

What is to be Done? (on making political films) / Jean-Luc Godard

Editorial 1: Avant-Garde Film / Simon Field

Editorial 2: Avant-Garde Film / Peter Sainsbury

Mare's Tail (on David Larcher) / Stephen Dwoskin

Editorial: Third World Cinema / Simon Field

Battle of Algiers (on Gillo Pontecorvo) / Peter Sainsbury

...And After (on Latin American and guerrilla cinema) / John Mathews

Editorial: For a New Cinema / Peter Sainsbury

Counter Cinema: Vent d'est (on Jean-Luc Godard) / Peter Wollen

Interview with Hollis Frampton / Simon Field

Editorial: Aesthetics/ldeology/Cinema / Peter Sainsbury

Propositions (on Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Carl Dreyer) / Noël Burch & Jorge Dana

Editorial: Perspectives on English Independent Cinema / Simon Field

Born to Kill: Mr. Soft Eliminator (on Jeff Keen) / Tony Rayns

Written Discussion (on Penthesilea) / Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen

Editorial: Hearing:Seeing / Simon Field

The Films of Straub are not 'Theoretical' (on Straub/Huillet) / Edward Bennett

Kristina: For an Introduction (on Yvonne Rainer) / B. Ruby Rich

Editorial: Beginning ... and Beginning Again / Simon Field

Perspective Correction: Early Film to the Avant-Garde / Rod Stoneman

See Real Images! (on Guy Sherwin, Steve Farrer, Lis Rhodes) / Deke Dusinberre

Editorial: Myths of Total Cinema / Ian Christie

The Senses 1 (b) (on photogénie) / Jean Epstein

Between Institutions: Interview with Raúl Ruiz / Ian Christie & Malcolm Coad

Editorial: Sighting Snow / Simon Field

Framing Snow (on Michael Snow) / Michael O'Pray

Editorial: The Troublesome Cases (on Derek Jarman and Borderline) / Simon Field

Derek Jarman's Cinema: Eros and Thanatos / Michael O'Pray

P.P.P. in the Garden of Earthly Delights (unrealised film proposal) / Derek Jarman

Editorial: Animating the Fantastic / Simon Field

Stirrings in the Dust (on visionary animation) / Roger Cardinal

The Magic Ritual of Tactile Inauguration / Jan Švankmajer

In Quay Animation (on Brothers Quay) / Paul Hammond

Afterword / Ian Christie

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

9780992837761

0992837766

OCLC:

1328010962